Massive Spy Malware 'Flame' Infiltrating Iranian Computers*
Flame Virus: Who's Behind the World's Most Complicated Espionage Software?*
Viruses More Prevalent On Religious Websites*
Activists Aim To Build A 'Bat-Signal For The Internet'*
Judge Defends Sentence Imposed on Dharun Ravi*
SKorea teens flock online to snitch on pro-North posts*
Computer Lockout Leads To Murder/Suicide*
'Geek In The City' Podcast on First-Person Shooter Video Games*
33 Inducted Into The Internet Hall of Fame*
SpaceX's mission ends with a splashdown in the Pacific*
SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down*
Audio Satire: NASA Shuttle Bus Delayed*
Thursday, May 31, 2012
#DataDump: #Flame, Blame, Hall of Fame and more
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Iran Computers Hit By New Malware: Meet Flame!
Wired Threat Level introduces newest computer malware: "Flame". "Kaspersky [Lab] discovered the malware about two weeks ago after the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union asked the Lab to look into reports in April that computers belonging to the Iranian Oil Ministry and the Iranian National Oil Company had been hit with malware that was stealing and deleting information from the systems," reveals article. The inevitable tendency is to compare to Stuxnet and DuQu previous malware that likewise attacked Iran computer networks.
Threat Level compares similarities and differences of Stuxnet and DuQu to Flame:
Threat Level compares similarities and differences of Stuxnet and DuQu to Flame:
"Stuxnet and DuQu were made of compact and efficient code that was pared down to its essentials. Flame is 20 megabytes in size, compared to Stuxnet’s 500 kilobytes, and contains a lot of components that are not used by the code by default, but appear to be there to provide the attackers with options to turn on post-installation. 'It was obvious DuQu was from the same source as Stuxnet. But no matter how much we looked for similarities [in Flame], there are zero similarities,' [ chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab, Alexander] Gostev said. “Everything is completely different, with the exception of two specific things.”
"One of these is an interesting export function in both Stuxnet and Flame, which may turn out to link the two pieces of malware upon further analysis, Gostev said. The export function allows the malware to be executed on the system. Also, like Stuxnet, Flame has the ability to spread by infecting USB sticks using the autorun and .lnk vulnerabilities that Stuxnet used. It also uses the same print spooler vulnerability that Stuxnet used to spread to computers on a local network. This suggests that the authors of Flame may have had access to the same menu of exploits that the creators of Stuxnet used."Threat Level implies current computer worm, Flame is another large project that requires state backing: "a massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation."
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
FBI Secretly Creates Internet Police
RT reports FBI wants own e-spy capabilities. The FBI announces, as a result, new Domestic Communications Assistance Center (DCAC) in Quantico, VA to fulfill ambitions and keep up with the Jones', i.e., the NSA after recent unveiling of Utah Data Center. There is little known about the DCAC other than goal to wiretap internet and wireless communications. The establishment of spy centers also reflects exponential growth in paranoia among ruling elite!
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Bruce Gernon Story: Shortcut to Miami Beach Via Local Warp
Bruce Gernon Jr., a young pilot at the time, Dec. 4 , 1970 on a familiar route from Andros Island, Bahamas to South Florida, had an unexplainable short trip that would lead to decades of searching to understand! Gernon describes the fateful trip:
There's even an attempt at a scientific explanation available, "The Science Behind Bruce Gernon’s Flight 4 December 1970." It's an interesting read, and afterwards, the Bermuda Triangle may seem a little less mysterious? A 2006 interview of Gernon and co-author Rob MacGregor is available here. Also, an excerpt from a documentary about the 1970 flight follows below. Is the Bermuda Triangle, an area with less magnetic resistance to outside forces such as the solar wind or solar flares? Do these outside intrusions lead to unusual electrical storms such as Gernon's electronic fog?
"It was shortly after takeoff when I noticed an elliptical cloud directly in front of us about a mile away, hovering only about 500 feet above the ocean. It was a typical lenticular cloud, but I had never seen one that low...the lenticular cloud quickly changed into a huge cumulus cloud. We were climbing at 1,000 feet per minute, and the cloud seemed to be building up at the same rate. Unexpectedly, it caught up and engulfed the Bonanza [Beechcraft airplane]. After 10 minutes of climbing in and out of this cloud, the airplane finally broke free at 11,500 feet and the sky was clear. I leveled the Bonanza off and accelerated to its maximum safe cruising speed of 195 miles per hour. When I looked back at the cloud...It now looked like an immense squall, abnormally shaped in the form of a giant semicircle extending around us..."
"Soon we noticed another cloud building directly in front of us, near the Bimini Islands. It looked a great deal like the cloud that we had just left...Upon entering the cloud we witnessed an uncanny spectacle. It became dark and black, without rain, and visibility was about four or five miles. There were no lightning bolts, only extraordinarily bright white flashes that would illuminate the entire surrounding area. The deeper we penetrated, the more intense the flashes became, so we made a 135-degree turn to the left and headed due south out of the cloud."
"...it became apparent that the cloud near Andros and the cloud near Bimini were actually opposite sides of the same ring-shaped body...This seemed impossible, but there was no other explanation... ...later, I noticed a large U-shaped opening on the west side of the doughnut cloud. I had no choice but to turn and try to exit through the opening. As we approached, we watched the top ends of the U-gap join, forming a hole. The break in the cloud now formed a perfect horizontal tunnel, one mile wide and more than 10 miles long. We could see the clear blue sky on the other side. We also saw that the tunnel was rapidly shrinking. I increased the engine RPM, bringing our speed to the caution area of 230 miles per hour. When we entered the tunnel, its diameter had narrowed to only 200 feet....It appeared to be only a mile long instead of ten-plus as I had originally estimated. Light from the afternoon sun shone through the exit hole and made the silky white walls glow. The walls were perfectly round and slowly constricting. All around the edges were small puffs of clouds of a contrasting gray, swirling counterclockwise around the airplane. We were in the tunnel for only 20 seconds before we emerged from the other end. For about five seconds I had the strange feeling of weightlessness and an increased forward momentum. When I looked back, I gasped to see the tunnel walls collapse and form a slit that slowly rotated clockwise..."
"Something bizarre had happened. Instead of the blue sky we expected, everything was a dull, grayish white haze. Visibility seemed like more than two miles, yet we could not see the ocean, the horizon, or the sky. The air was very stable and there was no lightning or rain. I like to refer to this as an “electronic fog;” because it seemed to be what was interfering with our instruments... We were in the electronic fog for three minutes when the controller radioed that he had identified an airplane directly over Miami Beach, flying due west... We could not yet have reached Miami Beach— we should have been approaching the Bimini Islands... Suddenly the fog started breaking apart, in a weird sort of electronic fashion. Long horizontal lines appeared in the fog on either side of us. The lines widened into slits about four or five miles long. We saw blue sky through them. The slits continued expanding and joined together. Within eight seconds, all the slits had joined, and the gray fog had disappeared. All I could see was brilliant blue sky as my pupils adjusted to the abrupt increase in brightness. Then, I saw the barrier island of Miami Beach directly below."
"After we landed at Palm Beach I realized that the flight had taken a little less than 47 minutes...I had never made it from Andros to Palm Beach in less than 75 minutes, even on a direct route. Our course on this flight was quite indirect and probably covered close to 250 miles. How could the airplane travel 250 miles in 47 minutes? We taxied to customs, ending the fortuitous flight. We didn't talk about it for a long time."Gernon has come up with an explanation, shared in a 2005 book "The Fog." BermudaTriangleFog.com contends, "Gernon is the only one to see this from its birth stage through its mature stage and enter the heart of the Timestorm and escape through a Tunnel Vortex and experience a time warp of 30 minutes forward in time and 100 miles forward in space." A Powerpoint presentation is available at the website.
There's even an attempt at a scientific explanation available, "The Science Behind Bruce Gernon’s Flight 4 December 1970." It's an interesting read, and afterwards, the Bermuda Triangle may seem a little less mysterious? A 2006 interview of Gernon and co-author Rob MacGregor is available here. Also, an excerpt from a documentary about the 1970 flight follows below. Is the Bermuda Triangle, an area with less magnetic resistance to outside forces such as the solar wind or solar flares? Do these outside intrusions lead to unusual electrical storms such as Gernon's electronic fog?
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
High-Tech Military Weapons Made From Cheap Chinese Goods
Counterfeit Parts In US Military Equipment
from brasschecktv.com: Yikes! I don't even know what category to put this under. Chinese companies, and companies from other nations, are selling bogus electronics parts to the U.S. military, which could down helicopters, planes, even missiles. How much more dangerous does it get? That's sabotage, isn't it? Good grief, and I thought the cheap Chinese goods at Walmart were bad.
from brasschecktv.com: Yikes! I don't even know what category to put this under. Chinese companies, and companies from other nations, are selling bogus electronics parts to the U.S. military, which could down helicopters, planes, even missiles. How much more dangerous does it get? That's sabotage, isn't it? Good grief, and I thought the cheap Chinese goods at Walmart were bad.
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Saturday, May 26, 2012
North Korea: The Real Threat to US
Gordon Duff, Senior Editor of Veteran's Today, in an opinion piece from April 26th after UFO Sighting over Seoul (video), believes UFO is not a fake, as other sources assert, but one of two counter- intelligence platforms (flying saucers) based on the Korean peninsula. Duff suspects, despite official dismissals of authenticity, "these had a whiff of truth...to them...Veterans Today decided to turn to a top intelligence resource and see whether we were dealing with goose or gander...There was that smell of reality here, one we don’t always see...Thus, we had the forensic labs of the SACIA (South Africa Counter Intelligence Agency), the world’s top authority on certification of photographic data, diamond, mineral and currency authenticity, a somewhat controversial organization, quasi-governmental in nature, submit the video for detailed forensic analysis."
"Why would we choose experts on counter-terrorism, conflict diamonds and narcotics trafficking instead of a local photographer. Our answer was simple, we knew they had one of the most advanced labs in the world and, best of all, they volunteered. You can’t beat that. The video is genuine, totally. This is a slightly enlarged version [video]..."
"We then went to intelligence sources in Korea. There we learned an astounding story which we are not able to fully confirm. The aircraft, one that appears to be a 'flying saucer,' is one of two American reconnaissance vehicles stationed on the Korean peninsula by the United States [April 14th]...the United States is operating two vehicles using unknown technology as reconnaissance platforms in order to 'monitor' North Korea."
"When asked if such 'platforms' may have been deployed related to the recent unsuccessful launch of a North Korean rocket, we were told 'no.' Five minutes later we were told it is believed that such a vehicle could produce a 'field' that might be able to destroy a rocket and may act as part of an advanced missile defense system, far superior and much more secret than the Patriot systems under current deployment."
"[April 26th] Most likely, a short time ago, the US destroyed a North Korean experimental weapon on the launch pad, using one of our own, a craft capable of inter-planetary travel and, thusly, one that is 'just our imagination' like the hundreds of thousands of tons of vaporized steel from the World Trade Center on 9/11."
"[April 14th] There are also suspicious 'Malthusian' motives, fears that free energy would lead to an explosion in population or, worse yet, an explosion in real democracy.." Duff makes clear opinion, our present economy is being deprived of suppressed tech until every last cent can be squeezed from petroleum!
Also, Duff believes North Korea to be far more dangerous than advertised as a leader in bio-weapons field, genetics research and isolated for good reason. The Senior Editor believes they have an army complemented with Super Soldiers as one picture shows ten foot tall man in military garb at Kim's funeral, last year.
The real threat according to Duff, is possibly, North Korean bio-weapons not their nuclear technology, aided for decades by Russia and China. Another aspect of North Korean threat is their megalomania, "they really believe they are meant to be the only race destined to survive, a race of supermen," concludes Duff.
These Veteran's Today articles may seem out there, but the present writer suspects, Duff is closer to truth than most Americans would concede. It should be considered we downed the North Korean rocket in a countermeasure completed by covert platform (flying saucer) to keep nuclear threat in check. Duff believes, overlooked at the same time, is far more sinister risk of bio-weapons!
"Why would we choose experts on counter-terrorism, conflict diamonds and narcotics trafficking instead of a local photographer. Our answer was simple, we knew they had one of the most advanced labs in the world and, best of all, they volunteered. You can’t beat that. The video is genuine, totally. This is a slightly enlarged version [video]..."
"We then went to intelligence sources in Korea. There we learned an astounding story which we are not able to fully confirm. The aircraft, one that appears to be a 'flying saucer,' is one of two American reconnaissance vehicles stationed on the Korean peninsula by the United States [April 14th]...the United States is operating two vehicles using unknown technology as reconnaissance platforms in order to 'monitor' North Korea."
"When asked if such 'platforms' may have been deployed related to the recent unsuccessful launch of a North Korean rocket, we were told 'no.' Five minutes later we were told it is believed that such a vehicle could produce a 'field' that might be able to destroy a rocket and may act as part of an advanced missile defense system, far superior and much more secret than the Patriot systems under current deployment."
"[April 26th] Most likely, a short time ago, the US destroyed a North Korean experimental weapon on the launch pad, using one of our own, a craft capable of inter-planetary travel and, thusly, one that is 'just our imagination' like the hundreds of thousands of tons of vaporized steel from the World Trade Center on 9/11."
"[April 14th] There are also suspicious 'Malthusian' motives, fears that free energy would lead to an explosion in population or, worse yet, an explosion in real democracy.." Duff makes clear opinion, our present economy is being deprived of suppressed tech until every last cent can be squeezed from petroleum!
Also, Duff believes North Korea to be far more dangerous than advertised as a leader in bio-weapons field, genetics research and isolated for good reason. The Senior Editor believes they have an army complemented with Super Soldiers as one picture shows ten foot tall man in military garb at Kim's funeral, last year.
The real threat according to Duff, is possibly, North Korean bio-weapons not their nuclear technology, aided for decades by Russia and China. Another aspect of North Korean threat is their megalomania, "they really believe they are meant to be the only race destined to survive, a race of supermen," concludes Duff.
These Veteran's Today articles may seem out there, but the present writer suspects, Duff is closer to truth than most Americans would concede. It should be considered we downed the North Korean rocket in a countermeasure completed by covert platform (flying saucer) to keep nuclear threat in check. Duff believes, overlooked at the same time, is far more sinister risk of bio-weapons!
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning
A highly entertaining low budget movie, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, is a surprise! Viewer expectations for a movie that parodies another are frankly low. SW succeeds, however, with cheap humor, a plot and computer graphics. You get the idea if you think of a Finnish Space Balls. The production saga makes for an interesting backdrop: "The 'prime mover' of the production was Samuli Torssonen. In the early 1990s, he produced short animated humorous Star Trek inspired fan films under the collective title Star Wreck. It was planned to be a fifteen-minute live-action special effects heavy film, containing the basic plot elements of In the Pirkinning: Pirk acquiring a ship and then a fleet, a quick transport to a Babylon 5-esque world, where the Trek-inspired P-fleet ships would have a huge battle with Babylon 5-inspired ships...For the next several years, to an outside observer, In the Pirkinning was continually 'almost finished, to be released within next six months'. Eventually, it took seven years from the first conception of the movie to its release, most of that time being taken by the huge time it took to render all the computer-generated imagery that formed all of the special effects as well as the virtual sets for all non-location scenes. For most part of the production, the studio was a converted two-room apartment: one room featured the blue screen and most of the computers and other equipment involved in the shooting, and the kitchen contained the render farm. A closet was used for dubbing."
You have to hand it to Torsonnen and director Timo Vuorensola for their ingenuity. The special effects and graphics are surprising! A viewer will be at home with humor that doesn't seem foreign. Hats off to Torsonnen and Vuorensola who pair again for another seven year effort to produce: Iron Sky. There is presently a fight for screen dates in the UK, and appears, distributors are caving to demand. This production team is a threat to the bigger players!
You have to hand it to Torsonnen and director Timo Vuorensola for their ingenuity. The special effects and graphics are surprising! A viewer will be at home with humor that doesn't seem foreign. Hats off to Torsonnen and Vuorensola who pair again for another seven year effort to produce: Iron Sky. There is presently a fight for screen dates in the UK, and appears, distributors are caving to demand. This production team is a threat to the bigger players!
Thursday, May 24, 2012
#DataDump: Bomb Threat, Facebank, Fake Parts and more
Bomb Threat at NSA's Massive Top-Secret Data Center Halts Construction*
Video: Bomb Threat Investigated at New NSA Facility in Utah*
'Men In Black' Inspired By Scary Stories Of People Who've Seen UFOs*
NSA Teams With Colleges to Train Students for Secret Cyber-Ops Jobs*
Senate: US Weapons Systems Contaminated with Fake Parts from China*
Space veterans announce Liberty rocket, target 2015 launch*
Shareholders sue 'Facebank' over info concealed ahead of IPO*
Video: Facebook faces legal action over IPO debacle*
Europe's antitrust chief urges Google to settle allegations*
Supreme Court Upholds $675,000 File Sharing Verdict*
New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech*
Supreme Court to Rule on Assange Extradition Appeal*
Pot Prosecution Up in Smoke Due to Warrantless GPS Tracking*
Digital Rights Groups Defend Tiny Antenna-Based Internet TV Service*
#Audio #Satire: Computer Hacker Denied Access To Social Life*
Video: Bomb Threat Investigated at New NSA Facility in Utah*
'Men In Black' Inspired By Scary Stories Of People Who've Seen UFOs*
NSA Teams With Colleges to Train Students for Secret Cyber-Ops Jobs*
Senate: US Weapons Systems Contaminated with Fake Parts from China*
Space veterans announce Liberty rocket, target 2015 launch*
Shareholders sue 'Facebank' over info concealed ahead of IPO*
Video: Facebook faces legal action over IPO debacle*
Europe's antitrust chief urges Google to settle allegations*
Supreme Court Upholds $675,000 File Sharing Verdict*
New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech*
Supreme Court to Rule on Assange Extradition Appeal*
Pot Prosecution Up in Smoke Due to Warrantless GPS Tracking*
Digital Rights Groups Defend Tiny Antenna-Based Internet TV Service*
#Audio #Satire: Computer Hacker Denied Access To Social Life*
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Intel Hub Series Underground Bases Conclusion
The Intel Hub series on Underground Bases ended last week with conclusions by Richard Sauder from his book, "Hidden In Plain Sight." Sauder harbors suspicions more than anything, "...if the underground and underwater infrastructure of secret bases and tunnels has possibly grown so extensive, so sophisticated and so out-of-the-oversight of the constitutionally mandated political checks and balances prescribed by open, civil government, then it may be that the well-being of the American people, and perhaps many others as well, is profoundly threatened by a stealthy, massively funded, high-tech, underground and/or undersea power about which they remain blissfully unaware, the nefarious intentions and plans of which run directly counter to their best interests."
Sauder hints at sources for his suspicions: "time and again I have been approached by ex-military personnel, and, I believe, even active-duty military personnel in some cases...I believe it is because some people who are involved in the activities of the United States military see things that bother them, or perhaps are asked to carry out duties that trouble them. Some of these people then leak information to a researcher such as myself, in hopes that some of what they have seen, or have been asked to do, will trickle out into the public domain, for the greater edification of the general population."
The present writer wants to thank Richard Sauder and The Intel Hub for making excerpts of book available. Is it too much to imagine Dick Cheney in his favorite underground crypt, following 9/11? Sauder isn't revealing everything and it's disquieting to know an underground world is being kept from us! You've been warned!
Sauder hints at sources for his suspicions: "time and again I have been approached by ex-military personnel, and, I believe, even active-duty military personnel in some cases...I believe it is because some people who are involved in the activities of the United States military see things that bother them, or perhaps are asked to carry out duties that trouble them. Some of these people then leak information to a researcher such as myself, in hopes that some of what they have seen, or have been asked to do, will trickle out into the public domain, for the greater edification of the general population."
The present writer wants to thank Richard Sauder and The Intel Hub for making excerpts of book available. Is it too much to imagine Dick Cheney in his favorite underground crypt, following 9/11? Sauder isn't revealing everything and it's disquieting to know an underground world is being kept from us! You've been warned!
Best Evidence: Top Ten UFO Sightings
A 2007 Redstar Films documentary, "Best Evidence: Top Ten UFO Sightings," aired on Space in Canada. A UFO sightings show may seem unattractive to fans who might anticipate cases. Yes, there's a few perennial favorites such as the 1980 Rendlesham Forest sighting, however retired Colonel Charles Halt adds details about what was learned afterwards, which adds a fresh perspective to an otherwise well-know incident. The Canadian production includes cases not as visible in the United States. A mile-long UFO spotted by multiple witnesses along Klondike Highway in 1996, provides a fascinating and well-documented case. A 1967 Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia sighting is another. You may view UFOs from a Canadian perspective in a well-done 47 minute production and discover remaining cases. The best part admission is free!
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
UFO Battle at Nuremberg 1561
You may have missed this multiple UFO sighting reported on April 4, 1561 by the Nuremberg Gazette in Germany? The city witnessed a battle of UFOs as described in a Altered Dimensions.net article. "It began at dawn, as dozens, if not hundreds, of crosses, globes and tubes fought each other above the city. It ended an hour later, when 'the globes in the small and large rods flew into the sun,' and several of the other objects crashed to earth and vanished in a thick cloud of smoke. According to the Nuremberg Gazette, the 'dreadful apparition' filled the morning sky with 'cylindrical shapes from which emerged black, red, orange and blue-white spheres that darted about.' Between the spheres, there were 'crosses with the color of blood.' (i.e. red crosses) This 'frightful spectacle' was witnessed by "numerous men and women." Afterwards, a 'black, spear-like object' appeared." An amazing story memorialized in a woodcut (picture) created by Hans Glaser at the time. What truly resonates are descriptions of craft that seem contemporary to reports in our time. It's been speculated 16th century Nuremberg witnessed a World War II battle due to a time rip? In another interesting twist, a very similar incident occurred five years later in Basel, Switzerland. You may view an excerpt from History Channel on You Tube that covers event below the fold.
SpaceX Launch Successful Second Time Around
Universe Today reports successful Space X launch on May 22 from Cape Canaveral after a previous T-Minus Zero abort. The Space X Dragon replaces the Space Shuttle. The article reports: "the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped by the Dragon cargo capsule thundered to space from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 3:44 am (May 22) and is now safely in orbit with solar arrays deployed and is chasing the ISS flying some 249 miles overhead." It is a new era of privatized space for better or worse!
Monday, May 21, 2012
Ring of Fire: May 20, 2012 Annular Eclipse
Annular eclipse or "Ring of Fire" viewed from Japan (picture, left) and Lubbock, TX (right) on May 20, 2012. There are more pix at Spaceweather.com Realtime Gallery. Thanks goes to rense.com for Japan image, also, marconews.com for view from Lubbock, TX. It's simply eye candy for the mind!
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Spy Drone Almost Causes Mid Air Collision With Jet Over Denver
Will near miss with drone make authorities rethink their use? It's only a matter of time before there is a mid-air mishap. A near miss in skies over Denver raised concerns there! Infowars.com covers story.
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Sci-Fi Writer Stephen Lord Death Celebrated
Writer Stephen Lord, after a long career, passed away on May 5. The Hollywood Reporter supplies brief bio, "born Stephen Loyacano on Dec. 14, 1926, in New Orleans, he amassed more than 200 credits during a writing career that spanned 35 years. He wrote and/or scripted episodes of classic Westerns (Johnny Ringo, Death Valley Days, The Virginian), crime dramas (Ellery Queen, McCloud, T.J. Hooker) and science fiction (The Outer Limits, They Came From Outer Space). He also worked on features including, Hangar 18 (1980) and The Fall of the House of Usher (1979), and wrote plays and symphonies." You may not recognize Mr Lord by name, but almost certainly, you have came across his work. We celebrate passing of a great writer with link to an Outer Limits episode on Hulu TV, one of Lord's many great stories, "Keeper Of The Purple Twilight." Please enjoy by taking an hour to observe a great writer!
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Space X Launch Aborted At Last Second
Universe Today provides details on the aborting of Space X launch. "Today’s (May 19) historic launch of the first ever privately developed rocket bound for the International Space Station (ISS) was very surprisingly aborted at the last second when an engine glitch forced a dramatic shutdown of the Falcon 9 rockets 1st stage firing already in progress and as the NASA launch commentator was in the middle of announcing liftoff." It's anticipated the next launch attempt will be Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Systems All Go For Space X Launch On May 19
Space X will launch first commercial rocket on May 19 from Cape Canaveral. Universe Today article describes event: "In less than 48 hours, SpaceX is primed to make history and launch...spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) early Saturday morning on May 19...The SpaceX developed Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft (picture, right) is bolted on top of the two stage Falcon 9 rocket and stands 157 feet tall for the mission dubbed “COTS 2”. The Falcon 9 booster (picture, left) generates 1 million pounds of thrust ...The purpose of Dragon is to carry supplies up to orbit and dock at the ISS and partially replace the capabilities of NASA’s now retired space shuttle. Dragon is a commercial spacecraft designed and developed by SpaceX. "
It seems a wonderful achievement replacing wasteful government with efficiencies of a corporation? Is it truly for the best? What can a corporation conceal where government would have to disclose? Is it really much different than privatizing the military? The present writer believes a healthy skepticism should be taken when it comes to managing the affairs of space! It will be as easy as attaining your GPS coordinates from your enabled cell phone to put you in the crosshairs!
It seems a wonderful achievement replacing wasteful government with efficiencies of a corporation? Is it truly for the best? What can a corporation conceal where government would have to disclose? Is it really much different than privatizing the military? The present writer believes a healthy skepticism should be taken when it comes to managing the affairs of space! It will be as easy as attaining your GPS coordinates from your enabled cell phone to put you in the crosshairs!
Thursday, May 17, 2012
#DataDump: Initial Solar Offering
Solar #Eclipse Blazes #RingOfFire' This Weekend*
Space weather expert discusses solar flares* Three-man Soyuz crew departs for space station* Preparing for World Web War I* FBI Fears Bitcoin’s Popularity with Criminals Should Yahoo fire CEO Scott Thompson?* US Skype death soldier Bruce Kevin Clark 'not shot'* Can Murder Viewed on iPad Video Chat be Introduced as Evidence?* Kodak confirms it had uranium in lab* Four treated for chemical exposure at Intel in Hillsboro* A Guide to Oregon’s Extraterrestrial Past and Present* Twitter Hits Back at Court, Prosecutors Over 'Occupy' Order* FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging* Principal Accused of Spying on Students, Parents with Fake Facebook Account* Facebook Co-Founder Drops U.S. Citizenship to Avoid Taxes* Facebook's $16 billion IPO one of world's largest* California, Congress Move to Keep Facebook Passwords Private from Employers* Search Results Protected by First Amendment, Google-funded Analysis Says* Seized Hip-Hop Site Lashes Out At Feds, RIAA* It’s Tinkerers v. Hollywood, As Copyright Office Mulls New Jailbreaking Rules* Feds Considering Allowing DVD-Encryption Cracking* FTC Slaps MySpace For Privacy Breaches* Billion-Dollar City without Residents to be Built to Test New Technology* Anti-DotCon: .Secure Proposed as the Internet’s Safe Spot* Comcast Suspends Data Cap Temporarily, Will Test New Overage Fees* More Americans Worried about Cybarmegeddon Than Terrorism, Study Finds* Strapless iPod Nano Watch: Just Implant These Magnets in Your Wrist* Rebekah Brooks charges take the phone-hacking scandal to a new level* Court Upholds Google-NSA Relationship Secrecy* To Warrant or Not To Warrant? ACLU and Police Clash Over Mobile Phone Location Data* Video: National Security Agency Utah Data Center* Video: Increased wiretapping under Obama* Video: FBI wants flat-out totalitarian spying on the internet*
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Nibiru Is Back In The News!
Nibiru is back in the news! Rodney Gomes, a Brazilian astronomer, made a stir with hypothetical observations at a recent conference in Timberline Lodge, Oregon of the American Astronomical Society. Gomes, is probably, blissfully unaware of Nibiru speculations reignited by his words. During the conference, "'what's intriguing,' Gomes said,' is that, according to his new calculations, about a half dozen Kuiper belt objects—including the remote body known as Sedna—are in strange orbits compared to where they should be, based on existing solar system models...But I think the easiest one [i.e, explanation] is a planetary-mass solar companion'—a planet that orbits very far out from the sun but that's massive enough to be having gravitational effects on Kuiper belt objects," according to the National Geographic article. It must be Nibiru! It makes for great mania if little else!
You can receive another manic jolt from watching video by undercoveralien.
You can receive another manic jolt from watching video by undercoveralien.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Annular Eclipse of Sun on May 20, 2012
An annular eclipse of the Sun occurs on May 20, 2012. The path over western United States where partial eclipse will be visible, is mapped (picture, right), thanks to eclipse-maps.com. "An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun, causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometers wide," according to Wikepedia. Yes, there's a dedicated page to May 20th eclipse at Wikipedia and eclipse-maps.com, at the latter website there's also an excellent history of solar eclipse maps. Where's the best place to be for viewing? The large swath (brown area in picture) from Medford, OR to Lubbock TX. The fun starts at 5:08 PT Sunday in Oregon and concludes in Texas at sunset. The United States will experience partial eclipse in most areas except for the East Coast. An annular eclipse is called a "ring of fire" (picture, left) - don't miss it!
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Did Germans Launch Manned Rocket in 1933?
Was Otto Fischer, brother to German rocket designer Bruno Fischer, first to man a rocket? An article at io9.com relates, "on October 29, 1933, the London Sunday Referee published a report from Rugen, an island in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of Germany. Someone named Otto Fischer had flown inside a 24-foot steel rocket, to an altitude of six miles," a group of Reichwehr (War Ministry) officials present to witness launch. The story has twist in money provided for project, was intended, to help prove Hollow Earth Theory. A rocket flying in a straight line should reach New Zealand, believed to be on opposite side of a Hollow Earth. "This was the Hohlweltlehre, or Hollow Earth Doctrine, of Peter Bender that flourished in the anticultural Nazi movement...," reports article. A plausible story given "...the Germans were in fact hotly pursuing rocket propulsion at the time. Added to this was the fact that Bruno Fischer really existed and was busily at work designing rockets. And in fact, the report caused a considerable fuss at the time it appeared."
Willie Ley, a German-born space expert, believes story got distorted beyond recognition. Pioneer rocket researcher Rudolf Nebel, chief engineer for the Verein fur Raumschiffahrt (German Rocket Society), given the project, coined it the "Magdeburg Pilot Rocket". It's believed, a reporter misunderstood name and ran with story. The article concludes with ironic quote from Nebel: "the first manned flight rocket [sic] will introduce a development which has rapid transport over the earth as its final goal. I admit that many people still laugh at such plans." Nobody should be laughing, now. It's an interesting read even if likely little more than wartime German disinformation!
Willie Ley, a German-born space expert, believes story got distorted beyond recognition. Pioneer rocket researcher Rudolf Nebel, chief engineer for the Verein fur Raumschiffahrt (German Rocket Society), given the project, coined it the "Magdeburg Pilot Rocket". It's believed, a reporter misunderstood name and ran with story. The article concludes with ironic quote from Nebel: "the first manned flight rocket [sic] will introduce a development which has rapid transport over the earth as its final goal. I admit that many people still laugh at such plans." Nobody should be laughing, now. It's an interesting read even if likely little more than wartime German disinformation!
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Charles Hall And The Tall White Aliens
Charles Hall, Airman First Class, served as a weather observer at the Indian Springs, NV gunnery range from 1965 to 1967. Writer Skylaire Alfvegren quotes in article on Hall what he discovered, "I spent most of my time as the duty weather observer at the gunnery ranges up at Indian Springs. And while I was up there, I discovered that there was a base that the U. S. government maintains for a group of aliens that I call the Tall White Aliens...Hall claims that from Indian Springs, if you look straight north up the Indian Springs Valley, and a bit to the east, you’ll find their main base in those mountains. [picture includes a scout ship built on Earth] (The location is known as Area 54.)....” The former airman details experience with the "Tall Whites" in book series entitled Millennial Hospitality.
Hall observes in article, he came to realize times when the aliens scheduled their arrivals and departures:
Hall believes these humanoid "aliens" still reside in the Indian Springs area as they have for thousands of years. The former serviceman doesn't know their world of origin but suspects Arcturus may be close? Tall Whites make for an interesting read even if Charles Hall turns out to be a disinfo agent. You can hear Hall first hand in following interviews at Vibrational Radio: part 1, part 2 and part 3.
Hall observes in article, he came to realize times when the aliens scheduled their arrivals and departures:
“'Every month on the night of the full moon, at or near sundown, the deep space craft arrive, coming in over Dogbone Lake. They pull into port, into the main hangar, where they repair and they refuel and they refurbish. On the night of the new moon, they go out to Dogbone Lake and take off. They use the base in the same way the U. S. Navy or the U. S. Air Force would use a base, say, on an island in the Pacific.'”In a second article, an analytical approach is applied to the information supplied by Hall. A glimpse at the technology possessed by the aliens and their craft are described:
"The Tall Whites obviously possess highly-advanced technology. Hall confined his descriptions of their technology to brief discussions of their deep space craft, the scout craft used for travel near the earth's surface and around the solar system, a weapon that they always carried, and special suits that afforded them limited levitation and also a defensive force field."It's Hall's opinion the Tall Whites are very much like us in temperament and emotional attachments with some critical differences
"These beings are all well-armed, and they can and do kill, sometimes at the tiniest provocation. They react and move much more rapidly than humans can, so if they decide you have threatened them, you may be cut down and bleeding out without having even been warned...there was a pattern of confrontations with our personnel, in which panic led to injury and death of our soldiers."
"On one occasion the beings even turned on Hall without warning, grievously wounding him in the neck, and leaving him to bleed his life away in the desert dust. In that desperate situation, alone and miles from any human help, Hall found a way to save his own life by using his body weight to press his wound against the soft earth, stemming the flow."The alien dwellers in the Indian Springs Valley are humanoid in appearance but like warmer temperatures, according to Hall, and reach about six feet in height at adulthood. The aliens experience a second growth spurt in their fourth century of life to reach upwards of eight to nine feet tall. Hall describes most Tall Whites die from organ failure at approximately 800 years of age--pretty interesting stuff! One Tall White told Hall she was born on Earth, at the time, James Madison was President.
Hall believes these humanoid "aliens" still reside in the Indian Springs area as they have for thousands of years. The former serviceman doesn't know their world of origin but suspects Arcturus may be close? Tall Whites make for an interesting read even if Charles Hall turns out to be a disinfo agent. You can hear Hall first hand in following interviews at Vibrational Radio: part 1, part 2 and part 3.
Friday, May 11, 2012
The Time Travel Tale of John Titor
Time travel tales fascinate and their implications boggle most of us who live in just one time period. Coast to Coast Host George Noory relives the John Titor tale with Oliver Williams, who maintains dedicated website, www.johntitor.com. The Time Travel Tale of John Titor begins, according to the website, "... on November 02, 2000, a person calling themselves Timetravel_0, and later John Titor, started posting on a public forum that he was a time traveler from the year 2036." Titor quickly gained a following with his observations on CERN and the virtually unknown IBM 5100. "One of Titor's earliest assertions was that CERN would discover the basis for time travel sometime around 2001, with the creation of miniature black holes about half a year after his departure," excitement followed as an article about mini-black holes around that time seemed to corroborate the Titor tale, according to the John Titor Wikipedia entry.
The IBM 5100 had a virtually unknown ability to translate computer code that IBM removed from later machines as it represented potential for significant loss of business. John Titor stated his mission from the year 2036:
The IBM 5100 had a virtually unknown ability to translate computer code that IBM removed from later machines as it represented potential for significant loss of business. John Titor stated his mission from the year 2036:
The stated reason John was here in our time was to obtain an IBM computer built in 1975 called a 5100. The 5100 does exist and was manufactured and sold by IBM. It is historically remembered as one of the first portable computers ever mass-produced but it arrived before computers were marketed to the public and quickly passed away in the early eighties.Time Traveler John Titor amazed followers with his CERN revelation and other observations. The present writer finds the IBM 5100 mission goal compelling. Many statements made by Titor have not panned out, but it's truly a mind-stretching exercise that is most important. You can relive more of the Time Travel Tale of John Titor @veryhistory.
John claimed he was related to one of the IBM engineers or programmers who worked on the 5100 and that's why he was chosen for this mission. By putting the pieces of his posts together, it appears he journeyed to Rochester Minnesota in 1975 (where the 5100 was created and manufactured), met with his relative who worked on the computer, obtained a 5100 from him and had it altered in some way for use in 2036.
John mentions that the 5100 had some sort of inbuilt ability to translate computer languages that was unknown or unpublished before 2036. The computer would then have been used back in his time to translate or fix broken computer systems."
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
It's Bow Wave Not Bow Shock
New data from Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) makes apparent it's a Bow Wave formed ahead of our Heliosphere as it parts interstellar space. Our Sun is reported to be traveling at an insufficient speed and magnetic resistance of interstellar space just ahead, is greater than previously known, to create a Bow Shock. The Sun and its heliosheath instead part the interstellar medium "...much like the wave made by a bow of a boat as it glides through the water," said David McComas IBEX investigator in a Universe Today article. The Sun travels through the Local Interstellar Cloud at only 52,000 mph down from 59,000 mph previously thought before new IBEX data. The article also reveals how little is known as McComas concludes, "it’s too early to say exactly what this new data means for our heliosphere Decades of research have explored scenarios that included a bow shock. That research now has to be redone using the latest data...."
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Invention of Wireless Phone Announced In 1906
A New York World newspaper article, "Telephone For Your Vest Pocket," from April 29, 1906, reports invention of a wireless "vest pocket" telephone. Video informs Charles E Alden is inventor of a clear precursor to modern cell phone. Little is known about Alden, today. It's fascinating video in under three minutes on You Tube.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Sunspot AR 1476 Visible to Naked Eye
Sunspot AR 1476 photographed by Albert Lao in Manila, Philippines (left). One of the largest sunspots in years, people are noticing AR 1476 without aid of a telescope. You can attempt to view sunspot directly just after sunrise or before sunset, when low in the sky, Sun is sometimes dimmer. Thanks goes to Lao and Spaceweather.com.
Monday, May 7, 2012
The Worst Yet to Come From Fukushima?
Are politicians finally alert to real Fukushima threat? Or, is it just posturing and a little CYA? It's been a year since the open maw of Fukushima began leaking a steady stream of radiation into the atmosphere. A recent Alternet aritcle reports, "alarmed by the precarious nature of spent fuel storage during his recent tour of the Fukushima Daiichi site, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, subsequently fired off letters to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko and Japanese ambassador to the U.S. Ichiro Fujisaki. He implored all parties to work together and with the international community to address this situation as swiftly as possible." This should have been the reaction, over a year ago! You can't helped but take cynical view and just shoot back" "No S--t Sherlock, Where You Been?"
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
Attack of the Sun
Will our high tech society collapse from the impact of a Coronal Mass Ejection? The Carrington Event of 1859, if it were to occur today would create far more havoc! "Attack of the Sun," a half hour You Tube video, estimates up to two trillion dollar cost in first year following a major event that collapses power grid. Halloween Storms of 2003 are regarded as particularly scary events, " these energetic storms began, surprisingly, a full two to three years after solar maximum, when solar activity was on the decline. During this usually "quiet" time, when few sunspots are visible, an outbreak of 17 major flares erupted on the sun," reports article. Will a Solar Tsunami takes us out or will we be ready? The present writer must ask obvious conspiracy question, "how would the average person be able to differentiate an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) from a CME event if true source kept secret?"
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
Attack of the Drones - USA
You may think drones make you safe, but think again! Drones are designed with strike capabilities. You Tube caption below "Attack of the Drones," a 30 minute video, points out, "Future drones will be able to independently find targets and decide to attack. As Iran lays its hands on a US spy drone, which experts in this report argue they are "perfectly capable of copying", has an uncontrolled new arms race already begun?" Drones are a menacing presence! You've been warned!
Thursday, May 3, 2012
#DataDump: #SuperMoon, Snooping, Sidesteps and more
#Supermoon Saturday:
May's Full Moon coincides with Perigee,
first of 6 Celestial events this month*
Twilight Language:
Cinco De Derby Moon*
Biggest full moon due this weekend as tides rise around the planet*
Venus to appear in once-in-a-lifetime event Jun5-6*
Sun may soon have four poles, say researchers*
Shuttle Enterprise soars over NYC skyline - NASA dignitaries, fidgety schoolchildren and Leonard Nimoy*
7M Birds Die in US and Canada a Year because of Communication Towers*
Law Prof says Megaupload Prosecution 'Depressing Display Of Abuse Of Government Authority'*
Justice Department Clears Google In Wi-Fi Sniffing Scandal*
Congress Should Grill the FCC Over Redacted Google Wi-Fi Snooping Report*
Google’s 'Engineer Doe' is Marius Milner, Known For Wi-Fi Hacking Tool*
Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Vows to Fix Following Public Pressure*
UK lawmakers say Rupert Murdoch unfit to run company*
British ISPs Ordered to Block Pirate Bay*
Video: How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes*
May's Full Moon coincides with Perigee,
first of 6 Celestial events this month*
Twilight Language:
Cinco De Derby Moon*
Biggest full moon due this weekend as tides rise around the planet*
Venus to appear in once-in-a-lifetime event Jun5-6*
Sun may soon have four poles, say researchers*
Shuttle Enterprise soars over NYC skyline - NASA dignitaries, fidgety schoolchildren and Leonard Nimoy*
7M Birds Die in US and Canada a Year because of Communication Towers*
Law Prof says Megaupload Prosecution 'Depressing Display Of Abuse Of Government Authority'*
Justice Department Clears Google In Wi-Fi Sniffing Scandal*
Congress Should Grill the FCC Over Redacted Google Wi-Fi Snooping Report*
Google’s 'Engineer Doe' is Marius Milner, Known For Wi-Fi Hacking Tool*
Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Vows to Fix Following Public Pressure*
UK lawmakers say Rupert Murdoch unfit to run company*
British ISPs Ordered to Block Pirate Bay*
Video: How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes*
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Intel Hub Series Underground Bases: Part 3
Richard Sauder, author of "Hidden in Plain Sight: Beyond the X-Files," provides another excerpt in article at The Intel Hub, "Underground Base Series Part 3." The anecdotal testimony of those who venture into unmarked areas, supply riveting vicarious adventure. Sauder provides one NSA employee account while stationed at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, MD:
The reader is reminded this particular account dates from the late seventies! "It would not surprise me if the complex beneath the NSA has grown even larger, deeper and more elaborate in the intervening years," adds Sauder. Another interesting anecdote concerns the Naval Weapons Air Station at China Lake, CA, comes from a serviceman the author spoke with after a talk a couple of years ago:
"I noticed a door next to the stairs by the east entrance where I came in at. There were no markings on it so I felt I could enter and not get in trouble. I opened the door and it was a stairwell leading down. I went over to the edge and looked down between the railings. I didn’t count the number of floors down, but I had the feeling it was about 15-20 floors. It was a long way to the bottom."
The reader is reminded this particular account dates from the late seventies! "It would not surprise me if the complex beneath the NSA has grown even larger, deeper and more elaborate in the intervening years," adds Sauder. Another interesting anecdote concerns the Naval Weapons Air Station at China Lake, CA, comes from a serviceman the author spoke with after a talk a couple of years ago:
"...when he mentioned that he had spent some time at China Lake my ears perked up. I asked him if there was an underground facility at China Lake. He said that indeed there is, and that it is impressively large and deep. I asked him if he had ever been in it, and he said that he had, though not to the deepest levels. I asked him how deep the deepest part extended. He looked at me soberly and said very quietly, 'It goes one mile deep.' I then asked him what the underground base contains. He replied, “Weapons.” I responded, “What sort of weaponry?” And he answered without pausing, 'Weapons more powerful than nuclear weapons.'"Sauder seems to get sources to reveal something, then, they realize they've said too much and close the conversation. There's more in this installment: 2,000 mph mag-lev trains, bases under White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the national forests in California, under the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico and inside a hollowed out Norwegian mountain.! The present writer suspects this is reason little concern expressed about radiation and pollution on the surface! The elite will seek refuge in their crypts below ground!
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Can Facebook Convince You to Give Up Your Organs?
Facebook feature leads to surge in organ donor registrations in California
from washingtonpost.com: It’s only been a day since Facebook announced a new feature that allows users of the social network to share their organ donor status on their profiles. But in at least one state, the move already seems to be having an impact. Donate Life California, one of the state’s federally-designated organ and tissue registries, said on its Facebook page that as of 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, it had seen a 1,400 percent jump in registration that day. “Thank you, FACEBOOK, for offering hope to people on the waiting list! Phenomenal!,” the posting said.
from washingtonpost.com: It’s only been a day since Facebook announced a new feature that allows users of the social network to share their organ donor status on their profiles. But in at least one state, the move already seems to be having an impact. Donate Life California, one of the state’s federally-designated organ and tissue registries, said on its Facebook page that as of 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, it had seen a 1,400 percent jump in registration that day. “Thank you, FACEBOOK, for offering hope to people on the waiting list! Phenomenal!,” the posting said.
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